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951. Egerton MS 3721

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3721
Title:
Kalendar; St Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana (excerpts); St Augustine, De Trinitate;De Duodecim Lapidibus (imperfect)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript consists of two parts (ff. 1-8v; ff. 9-86) that were produced at the Benedictine abbey of St Alban at St Albans, and bound together at an early date (see Thomson, Manuscripts from St Albans (1982), p. 92). The scribe of ff. 1-8 copied the St Albans Psalter (Hildesheim, Dombibli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

952. Egerton MS 3760

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3760
Title:
Cistercian Gospel Lectionary
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript from France contains Gospel readings (lections) for the moveable liturgical feasts for events related to Easter (Temporale) and the immovable liturgical feasts for Christmas and the saints (Sanctorale). Its original contents and additions suggest that the manuscript ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

953. Egerton MS 3775

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3775
Title:
St Augustine, De Consensu Evangelistarum
Scope & Content:
This 12th-century manuscript contains De Consensu Evangelistarum (The Harmony of the Gospels) by St Augustine of Hippo (b. 354, d. 430). The manuscript was most likely produced at the Benedictine abbey of Westminster, but was certainly owned by the Abbey in the 13th century. It is one of five ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Hebrew and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

954. Egerton MS 3776

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3776
Title:
St Jerome, Commentaries on Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains the first six books of St Jerome's (b. 347, d. 420) commentaries on the Book of Jeremiah and the Book of Ezekiel. It was produced in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century at the Benedictine abbey of St Edmund in Bury St Edmunds; it is particularly in this period, during th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

955. Egerton MS 3781

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3781
Title:
Cocharelli, Treatise on the Vices and Virtues (fragment)
Scope & Content:
This item comprises a single parchment leaf from the ‘Cocharelli Codex’, of which only 27 leaves and fragments in three different collections survive. The original codex included two richly-illuminated texts, the first on the vices and virtues and the second on historical events during the tim...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1330-1340
Extent:

1 parchment leaf, kept in an album.

956. Egerton MS 3884

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 3884
Title:
Melford Hall Manuscript: Poems by John Donne with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, and Thomas Weelkes
Scope & Content:
Known as the ‘Melford Hall Manuscript’ this volume contains 145 poems by John Donne, poet and Church of England clergyman (1572 – 1631), with others by Francis Beaumont, Thomas Carew, Richard Corbet, Thomas Overbury, John Roe, Henry Killigrew, Thomas Weelkes and several unattributed works copied...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1620-1759
Extent:
1 volume

957. Egerton Papyrus 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Papyrus 2
Title:
Egerton Gospel (P. Lond. Christ. 1, P. Egerton 2, TM 63527, LDAB 4736)
Scope & Content:
Fragments containing portions of an otherwise unknown Gospel (P. Lond. Christ. 1, P. Egerton 2). P. Köln VI 255 is from the same codex and follows on from fragment 1.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Mid 2nd century
Extent:

Fragments of three leaves of a codex, mounted in glass.

958. Egerton Roll 2210

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 2210
Title:
Roll of expenses of John Harecourt, receiver in Staffordshire of Anne Neville, duchess of Buckingham
Scope & Content:
A roll of expenses sent to Anne [Neville, d. 1480], duchess of Buckingham, countess of Hereford, Northampton and Stafford, incurred by John Harecourt, esquire, her receiver in Staffordshire, covering several years down to Michaelmas 1447. The expenses relate to travel costs, rent for property he...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Middle
Date Range:
1467
Extent:
1 roll

959. Egerton Roll 8797

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 8797
Title:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe, widow of Thomas Smythe of London
Scope & Content:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe (née Judde), widow of Thomas Smythe (1522-1591) of London. Seen, valued and appraised on 30 June 1593 by Richard Rogers, goldsmith, Richard Osborne, draper, William Greenway, merchant tailor, and Hugh Sherriot, merchant tailor, citizens of London, app...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 roll

960. Egerton Roll 8798

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton Roll 8798
Title:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe, widow of Thomas Smythe of London
Scope & Content:
Inventory of the possessions of Alice Smythe (née Judde), widow of Thomas Smythe (1522-91) of London. Seen, valued and appraised on 30 June 1593 by Richard Rogers, goldsmith, Richard Osborne, draper, William Greenway, merchant tailor, and Hugh Sherriot, merchant tailor, citizens of London, appoi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1593
Extent:
1 roll

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